The Left Party's 46^th Congress displayed an almost deafening sense of self-confidence and fighting spirit ahead of the upcoming election.
The key priority for the party leadership – and the majority at the congress – was to “tie Nooshi to the mast” regarding the demand to be part of a future government and not to “let through” any other alternative government. The question is whether the concerns that have existed – and still exist – among many Left Party members regarding the consequences (…)

A RECENT LETTER published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the left.
In particular, the letter condemns the US's actions against Iran. But in doing so, the letter ventures into apologia for the Iranian regime in the most glowing of terms. The letter writes, in speaking of Iran:
“What stands before it is not merely a nation, but a civilisation that has weaponised its own (…)

« Aucun des criminels du régime d'Assad n'aurait imaginé qu'un jour viendrait où il serait tenu de rendre compte de ses crimes ; ils se croyaient éternels et pensaient que quiconque s'opposait à eux ou leur tenait tête était voué à être éternellement perdant. (...) De même aujourd'hui, aucun des auteurs de crimes liés au régime post-Assad, qu'ils aient commis ces crimes avant ou après la chute d'Assad, n'imagine qu'il pourrait se retrouver dans la même situation que celle des criminels du (…)

The BRICS countries have split three ways in response to the Israeli-American war on Iran: condemnation of Israel and the United States by Iran, Russia, China and Brazil; condemnation of Iran alone by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India; equivocation from Indonesia, South Africa and Ethiopia. Modi's tilt toward Washington and Tel Aviv breaks with India's non-aligned tradition; Pakistan has eclipsed New Delhi as US-Iran mediator. Contradictory security alignments, not (…)

Italy's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)